And thus September 29 begat my numerous Groundhog Day attempts to get @TwitterSupport to figure out the dealio, which I will now illustrate with screen caps.
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At this point I am going to stop pestering Twitter and give them a chance to figure out how to solve this. If they do, fine, I'll nuke this account and go back to the original. If not, fine, I'll vanish into the ether of my real life, which isn't half bad.
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I have to say being off Twitter for a while has really let me catch up on my real interests: Mimerobics and restoring vintage Salad Shooters.
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I'm not really mad about the situation, other than it looks like I may have permanently lost a couple thousand
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Please note: I am in no way asking you to pester Twitter or Twitter Support on my behalf about this. But if you do, please be respectful and courteous. I'd like to have my account back up to normal, and you raging at Twitter about it is probably not helping.
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So if you'll excuse me now, I have some vintage Salad Shooters that need restoration. EXCELSIOR!
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I went through that same process a few years ago, never got the account back. Sorry man, this sucks
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Beyond a hack, if you are deemed undesirable in a nonspecific way, then the restoration of your original account is less likely. There's a numbers game involved:
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By means of ever increasingly sophisticated algorithmic stylings it is easier to keep a newer acount with fewer tweets and followers buried and relatively far less influential than the old one with the big numbers. That is, if such so unlikely were the gatekeepers' wish.
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Since when is the best classic car ID service something to be attacked and deleted.
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